{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-29/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How do we observe the plant? We observe it by following it from the seed up through the roots, leaves and flowers until the seed develops again, and in this we see the repetition of the old and the starting point of the new plant. In this way, we follow spiritually in the human being what enters through birth from the spiritual world, follow what develops as a spiritual seed, we connect the end with the beginning, as we do with the plant. Just as we connect the fruit, the blossom and the seed of a plant with that from which the plant sprouts, and thus see the earlier with the later, so the spiritual researcher sees by developing what has been mentioned as intimate processes within himself; he sees how human life is chained to human life. In repeated earthly lives, the human life develops. 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The Eternal Forces of the Human Soul in the Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-11-29","location":null,"word_count":181,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1915-11-29/p030","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19151129p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wir betrachten sie, indem wir sie verfolgen von dem Samen bis herauf - durch die Wurzeln, Blätter, Blüten -, bis wiederum der Same sich entwickelt, und in diesem sehen wir die Wiederholung der alten und den Ausgangspunkt der neuen Pflanze. So verfolgen wir geisteswissenschaftlich im Menschen das, was hereintritt durch die Geburt aus der geistigen Welt, verfolgen das, was sich als geistiger Same entwickelt, wir verbinden das Ende mit dem Anfang, wie wir das bei der Pflanze machen. Wie wir bei der Pflanze die Frucht, die Blüte, den Samen mit dem, woraus die Pflanze hervorsprießt, verbinden und so die frühere mit der späteren schauen, so schaut der Geistesforscher, indem er das, was erwähnt worden ist, als intime Vorgänge in sich entwickelt; er schaut, wie sich Menschenleben an Menschenleben kettet. In wiederholten Erdenleben entwickelt sich das menschliche Leben. 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